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Bring the Funk
There is music, and then there is funk. And along with all of funk’s myriad attractions (just try to sit still when George Clinton and P.Funk give it up) there is also this: funk is nothing if not inclusive. Or … Continue reading
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Tagged Alissia Benveniste, culture, funk, George Clinton, music, Parliament Funkadelic
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When art was labor, and labor was salvation
Crises have a way of bringing out the best or the worst in people, and in societies, and in cultures. There’s rarely a middle ground, and there’s rarely any ambiguity to it. You might think of them as litmus tests … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, FDR, Federal Arts Project, Jackson Pollack, Labor Day, Mark Rothko, New Deal, public art, public works, Roosevelt
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Every other year – the art world lets its hair down
Doesn’t seem easy for the arts to do the unexpected. Or rather, artists themselves thrive on the unusual and the risky, but the arts establishment does its best to steer them, and their production, right back toward the mainstream. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, biennial, classical music, culture, new music, new york philharmonic, Pierre Boulez, The Raven, what is culture?
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Join the culture cadre
The United States is one of the few modern societies that, from the top, generally ignores most of its internal cultural development, and ruthlessly politicizes the rest. We haven’t been verging on cultural wasteland-edness for generations on accident—it’s imprinted on … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, culture, Glenn Beck, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, what is culture?
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No place for an Easter egg
Easter eggs are cute devices. I don’t mind them in movies, games, ads—not even in arts and literature. They’re an unexpected connection that happens, sometimes, between creator and the innumerable cadre of explorers who’ve peeled back a layer of whatever … Continue reading
A matter of opinion
America’s last great pop-culture controversy of 2013 (last as of this writing; I sure hope no toppers are lurking ’round the corner)…swirls about the A&E swampbillies-made-good docu-melodrama, Duck Dynasty. Hopefully you know the score, because it would pain me to … Continue reading
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Tagged controversy, culture, Duck Dynasty, equality, homophobia, Phil Robertson
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Arts and culture as economic profit centers
Some might have doubted whether the economic value of the creative arts could ever be quantified. Many others probably preferred that they wouldn’t be. Arts and culture are ethereal; economics are the opposite of that. There was never supposed to … Continue reading
Happy birthday Marina Abramović (you scare the hell out of me)
My take on performance art is…complicated. My better self has the same respect, the same esteem, for this art and these artists as I do for any art, any artist. My kneejerk self, though, tends to look at performance artists … Continue reading
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Saving art by shutting it away
At some point, if we’re smart enough and responsible enough to make the sacrifice, we have to stop being consumers of art and start being conservators. And it is indeed a sacrifice. The art that demands our protection is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art preservation, culture, ecology, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sistine Chapel, what is culture?
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Banksy in Manhattan
Sometimes the artist becomes a brand, a profit center. Usually when that happens the results are regrettable. But sometimes the artist hangs on to his or her integrity. Sometimes the lure of fame and success aren’t enough to dilute the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Banksy, culture, graffitti, New York City, street art, what is culture?
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Inside the Whitney’s I-You-We exhibition
It’s not often that a storied art collection like that of New York’s Whitney Museum gets up and changes address. But that’s exactly what’s going to happen in 2015, when the museum’s new downtown building is complete, and the Whitney … Continue reading
To glimpse a Van Gogh
Funny thing about Vincent Van Gogh‘s series of sunflower paintings. As a subject, they’re as synonymous with the artist as any could be. His self-portraits and his visions of starry nights are iconic, of course; when it comes to still-life, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, Lost Sunflowers, Martin Bailey, Vincent Van Gogh, what is culture?
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Art is set to conquer its final frontier
Artist expression seems to be our oldest form of expression, or at least our oldest enduring one. As such, our artists (which includes all of us, when you think about it; all of us who have ever been…) have by … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art in space, Clyde Space Ltd., culture, iam8bit, space, what is culture?
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Getting to know Francis Bacon
Opportunities to learn pop up quite unexpectedly. You have to be ready to seize them, to revel in them, and yes, to begin learning from them. Their unpredictability demands that. Take for instance my new-found fascination with the life of … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, English Renaissance, Francis Bacon, philosophy, what is culture?
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